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Conceptual Photography

CONCEPTUAL STYLE

In 1967, artist Sol LeWitt wrote that in “Conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work.” He was giving a name to an art movement that had emerged in the 1960s in which artists were less focused on their medium being something traditionally “artistic” and instead engaged in using any object, movement, form, action or place to express an idea.

LeWitt’s work was featured alongside an assemblage of notes, drawings and outlines by other artists in “Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art,” a groundbreaking show at New York City’s School of Visual Arts curated by Mel Bochner, another leading exponent of Conceptualism. Building on radical 20th-century statements, like Fountain (1917) by French artist Marcel Duchamp, Conceptual artists around Europe and North and South America were not interested in the commercial art scene and rather directly challenged its systems and values.

Stretching into the 1970s, this movement has also been called Post-Object art and Dematerialized art. Conceptual art reflected a larger era of social and political upheaval. Pieces associated with the style range from Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) — a work of installation art that sees fresh oranges stacked into a pyramid from which visitors are allowed to take one orange away — to On Kawara’s “Today” series, which saw the Japanese artist carefully painting a date in white acrylic on canvases consisting of a single color from 1966 to his death in 2014. Artists such as Ed Ruscha, who created the Twentysix Gasoline Stations book — a collection of photos of gas stations that is widely said to be the first modern artists’ book — made photography a major platform for Conceptual art, as did Bruce Nauman, who burned one of Ruscha's books and then photographed it for his own.

Conceptual art’s legacy of questioning artistic authorship, ownership and how to work with complex ideas of space and time had a significant influence on the decades of culture that followed, and it continues to inform art today.

The collection of Conceptual photography, paintings and sculptures on 1stDibs includes artworks by John Baldessari, Jenny Holzer, Lawrence Weiner, Joseph Kosuth and others.

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Style: Conceptual
Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Biblioteca Marucelliana Florence, Italy 2022 62.5 x 50 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 75 x 60 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 87 x 70 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed and numbered on label, verso ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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C Print, Lambda

Deseo Insular III, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Deseo Insular III by Jose Sierra Archival Pigment Print. Semi-Matte Sheet size: 40 in. H x 23.19 in. W Image size: 36 in. H x 22 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP 2016 Other sizes are avai...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Color, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Grass - Salt Factory, Northwich - Blue British Square Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Grass, blue abstract photography from the Richard Heeps series Ordinary Places, photographing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour collection and was shot be...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 9-1-56 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 28,4 x 19,5 cm (11 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
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Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

#12 from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print, artist proof
Located in New York, NY
Untitled #12 from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print, artist print. This work is featured in Afanador's 2004 book 'Sombra" which combines elegant, erotic portraits...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Memory Berlin Germany Photo Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
Shimon Attie (b. 1957) Joachimstrasse, Ecke, Auguststrasse, Berlin, 1994 Edition 3/3 Dye coupler print on Kodak Ektacolor paper 27 x 34 inches (68.6 x 86.4 cm) (image) 34 x 40 inches (sheet) Presents well. Framed Dimensions 36.25 X 42.5 From series The Writing on the Wall. Attie projected found pre-war images of Jewish street-life in Berlin onto the same or nearby addresses in 1992/1993. Through this intervention, fragments of the past were introduced into the visual field of the present; long destroyed Jewish community life were visually simulated, momentarily recreated. The Writing on the Wall project was realized in Berlin’s former Jewish quarter, the Scheunenviertel, located in the Eastern part of the city, close to the Alexanderplatz. At the heart of Berlin, the Scheunenviertel was a center for eastern European Jewish immigrants from the turn of the century. The few historical photographs which remained after the Holocaust reflect the world of the Jewish working class rather than that of the more affluent and assimilated German Jews who lived mostly in the western part of the city.The juxtaposition between the projected images and the empty rooms reminds viewers of the fragility of memory, and how sites are activated/changed by presence and absence. Shimon Attie (born Los Angeles in 1957) is an American visual artist. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, The Rome Prize in 2001 and a Visual Artist Fellowship from Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study in 2007. His work spans a variety of media, including photography, site-specific installation, multiple channel immersive video installation, performance, and new media. Much of Attie's practice explores how a wide range of contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place, and identity. Much, though not all, of Attie's work in the 90s dealt with the history of the second world war. He first garnered significant international attention by slide projecting images of past Jewish life onto contemporary locations in Berlin. More recent projects have involved using a range of media to engage local communities to find new ways of representing their history, memory and potential futures. Attie's artworks and interventions are site-specific and immersive in nature, and tend to engage subject matter that is both social, political and psychological. In 2013, Five monographs have been published on Attie's work, which has also been the subject of a number of films, which have aired on PBS, BBC, and ARD. Since receiving his MFA Degree in 1991, Attie has realized approximately 25 major projects in ten countries around the world. Most recently, in 2013-14, Shimon Attie was awarded the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award in Art. Judaica subject matter. He was born in 1957 and received an MFA in 1991. In 1991 he moved to Germany from his previous home in Northern California, and began to make work initially about Jewish identity and the history of the second world war. His work later evolved to engage broader issues of memory, place and identity more generally. Shimon Attie moved to New York City in 1997. Shimon Attie's work has been extensively reviewed by a wide variety of publications, including features and/or reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, Art Forum, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, and many others. Yasaman Alipour, writing in "The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture", on Shimon Attie's solo exhibition "Facts on the Ground" at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City: Attie achieves something profound: he presents a unique opportunity to contemplate Israel/Palestine without the distraction that is simultaneously a manifestation of the limitations of visual of written language and the possibilities of their alliance." Norman Kleeblatt, writing in a cover story for "Art in America" "Like many other artists in the wake of Marcel Broodthaers...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Color

Silver gelatin print from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, stamped on verso
Located in New York, NY
Untitled portrait from Ruven Afanador "Sombra" series, silver gelatin print, artist print. This work is featured in Afanador's 2004 book 'Sombra" which combines elegant, erotic port...
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Early 2000s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards from Afar' have been given a twenty-first century pop art lease of life. The fine detailed tapestry of the original small postage stamp has been brought to life, made unique by the franking stamp and Heidler & Heeps specialist darkroom process. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic c-print, accompanied by a signed and numbered certificate of authenticity. The print is fragile and it is recommended it is handled and framed professionally. This artwork is available in other sizes. Be sure to look at Heidler & Heeps other artworks listed on 1stDibs as they are great paired for interior design projects. Following on from the hugely successful ‘Vinyl Collection’, Natasha Heidler & Richard Heeps have collaborated again, drawing from the childhood past time of stamp collecting...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color

Library Hall, Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, Görlitz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Immerse yourself in the enchanting grandeur of one of the world's most beautiful libraries with this evocative photograph by celebrated German artist, Reinhard Görner. This captivating image features the Library Hall at the Upper Lusatian Library of Sciences, a testament to the intersection of history, knowledge, and architectural elegance. Lit by a warm, timeless glow, the scene leads you through multiple carved archways...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Lambda

Self Portrait #6 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#6, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta II" Series Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle paper Image size: 40 in. H x 25.7 in. W Edition of 10 + 1AP Unframed Additional si...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment, Color

Cadenza by Gina Soden, Photographer, Photography, Documentary
Located in Deddington, GB
Cadenza by Gina Soden [2013] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 5 Image size: H:87.5 cm x W:70 cm Complete Size of Unfra...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Digital Pigment

African American Youth With Water Reflections
Located in Miami, FL
In the early 1970's Mitchell Funk was a trailblazer of color photography. In this stunning portrait the photographer merges naturalism and representation with abstraction. A candid s...
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1970s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Embrace
Located in East Hampton, NY
Two Men in an Embrace Printed to order Gay content Inquire about various sizing Comes unframed. About the Artist: Short Biography in a Nutshell: A fun journey My first foray into...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper

Reinhard Görner, Beinecke, New Haven, Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Reinhard Görner Beinecke, New Haven Yale Rare Books and Manuscript Library New Haven Contemporary large scale photograph 50 x 56 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 ...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

'Be the Woman You Needed When You Were Younger' Black+White Nude Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Sky ( artist framed ) - large scale abstract gradient monochromatic photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale monochromatic abstract observation of mesmerizing atmospheric color palette, from Raymond Meier's series Renderings Sky (Rendings 04) by Ray...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Hubcap, Manea - Monochrome Vintage British Square Photograph
Located in Cambridge, GB
Hubcap, subtle interior photography from the Richard Heeps series Ordinary Places, photographing Britain on the brink of change. It was Richard's first colour collection and was shot...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

The Grand Piano
Located in Los Angeles, CA
60 x 61.3 inches ed. of 7 $9000 70 x 71.6 inches ed. of 5 $11,000
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lambda

Palm Springs 8
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create imagined landscapes. The illustrations used in the series are based on reference shots I took in Palm Springs...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photogram

Palm Springs 1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photogram

Palm Springs 7
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Further to Fly is a series of Wet Plate Collodion Photograms that continues in my practice of using drawings on mylar layered with light-sensitive materials in the darkroom to create...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photogram

'Topaz' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Savannah Spirit Topaz 20” x 26” Silver gelatin print 1/1 "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Isolamento by Gina Soden, Colour photography, Limited edition print
Located in Deddington, GB
Isolamento by Gina Soden [2020] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 3 Image size: H:70.02 cm x W:105 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:74.2 cm x W:109 cm x D:0.1cm Sold Unframed Please note that insitu images are purely an indication of how a piece may look "On my 4th attempt I finally got inside here. Always overlooked by neighbours and a police station right next door, it always seemed tricky as it was hard not to get spotted. This was a grand villa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Digital Pigment

I Am My Own Muse (Black and White Nude Photography, Self-Portraiture)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist,...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick, 1981, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Robbert Flick
Located in Dallas, TX
East of Lancaster, CA by Robbert Flick is a 16 x 20 in silver gelatin print. This print features 49 small images of black and white landscapes presented in a grid. Each image measures 1 5/8 x 2 1/8 inches. This print is from Robbert Flick's Sequential Views series from his America Roads Portfolio. It is signed, titled and dated by Robbert Flick. Robbert Flick, Professor Emeritus, is a Southern California artist who uses photography as his primary medium. He has been exhibiting his photographs for over 50 years and his work has been shown and collected by numerous private and public venues both nationally and internationally. He is the recipient of multiple fellowships and in 2001 was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Creative Arts. The retrospective Robbert Flick: Trajectorieswas shown at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2004 accompanied by a comprehensive exhibition catalog co-published by LACMA and Steidl. In 2016 Nazraeli Press published “Robbert Flick LA Diary”. He is represented by ROSE Gallery in Santa Monica and Robert Mann...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Vintage Ektacolor Color Photograph Untitled Memory Projection Photo Shimon Attie
Located in Surfside, FL
Shimon Attie (American, b. 1957), Untitled Memory (Projection of Marsha A.) Ektacolor photograph, 1998, from the Untitled Memory series, Gallery label to verso, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York matted and framed. Frame dimensions 27 3/4 x 32 1/4 in, photo 25 X 31 Provenance: from the Estate of the late Ron and Anne Dees, Fayetteville, North Carolina Ron and Anne Dees were longtime collectors, lovers, and patrons of art. Starting in the late 1990s, they began their art acquisition and collection, focusing substantially on contemporary art. Their affinity for art went far beyond simply collecting and displaying. Ron served as a docent at the esteemed Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from the late 1990s into the 2000s. In the series "Untitled Memory," Attie revisited his former (and then-deserted) apartment in San Francisco, projecting black-and-white snapshots of his friends and family in spaces that they previously occupied. The desaturated figures have a specter-like appearance and are often depicted in repose or rest, as if in a perpetual state of waiting. The juxtaposition between the projected images and the empty rooms reminds viewers of the fragility of memory, and how sites are activated/changed by presence and absence. Shimon Attie (born Los Angeles in 1957) is an American visual artist. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, The Rome Prize in 2001 and a Visual Artist Fellowship from Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advance Study in 2007. His work spans a variety of media, including photography, site-specific installation, multiple channel immersive video installation, performance, and new media. Much of Attie's practice explores how a wide range of contemporary media may be used to re-imagine new relationships between space, time, place, and identity. Much, though not all, of Attie's work in the 90s dealt with the history of the second world war. He first garnered significant international attention by slide projecting images of past Jewish life onto contemporary locations in Berlin. More recent projects have involved using a range of media to engage local communities to find new ways of representing their history, memory and potential futures. Attie's artworks and interventions are site-specific and immersive in nature, and tend to engage subject matter that is both social, political and psychological. In 2013, Five monographs have been published on Attie's work, which has also been the subject of a number of films, which have aired on PBS, BBC, and ARD. Since receiving his MFA Degree in 1991, Attie has realized approximately 25 major projects in ten countries around the world. Most recently, in 2013-14, Shimon Attie was awarded the Lee Krasner Lifetime Achievement Award in Art. He was born in 1957 and received an MFA in 1991. In 1991 he moved to Germany from his previous home in Northern California, and began to make work initially about Jewish identity and the history of the second world war. His work later evolved to engage broader issues of memory, place and identity more generally. Shimon Attie moved to New York City in 1997. Shimon Attie's work has been extensively reviewed by a wide variety of publications, including features and/or reviews in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Art in America, Art News, Art Forum, The Village Voice, The Boston Globe, and many others. Yasaman Alipour, writing in "The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture", on Shimon Attie's solo exhibition "Facts on the Ground" at Jack Shainman Gallery in New York City: Attie achieves something profound: he presents a unique opportunity to contemplate Israel/Palestine without the distraction that is simultaneously a manifestation of the limitations of visual of written language and the possibilities of their alliance." Norman Kleeblatt, writing in a cover story for "Art in America" "Like many other artists in the wake of Marcel Broodthaers...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Color

Be the Woman You Needed When You Were Younger, solarized Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. #Contemporary black and white nude photography by Savannah Spirit Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Perturbé by Gina Soden, Photography, Limited Edition Print, Documentary
Located in Deddington, GB
Perturbé by Gina Soden [2020] limited_edition Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 1 Image size: H:76.2 cm x W:76,2 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:80.2 cm x W:...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Digital

Corazon Sagrado
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition 1/1 Signed, titled, dated and numbered in pencil on print margin by Delilah Montoya Collotype print, 10 x 8 in. Delilah Montoya was born in Texas to a Latina mother and an Anglo father. Her mother raised her in Nebraska until she relocated to New Mexico...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

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Other Medium

India the Wonderful Land original vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage linen backed, travel poster to INDIA The Wonderful Land. The center image of this poster is the Taj Mahal at Agra, India with the Qutb Minar minaret red tower in ...
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1950s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Lithograph

Vintage Untitled Beach Scene, 1987
Located in Surfside, FL
Please ignore the glare on the glass. Rare, early, signed and dated (verso) 1987 vintage silver gelatin print. this is one of a kind and not editioned according to correspondence I have from his studio. this is one of three. one of them has a label from Triton gallery in NYC (on the others you can see where it was) Image size is 13 x 8.75 inches (33.02 x 22.23 cm.) paper is 14X11 inches David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an American commercial photographer, fine-art photographer, music video director, film director, and artist. He is best known for his photography, which often references art history and sometimes conveys social messages. His photographic style has been described as "hyper-real and slyly subversive" and as "kitsch pop surrealism." One 1996 article called him the "Fellini of photography," a phrase that continues to be applied to him. David LaChapelle's photography career began in the 1980's in New York City galleries. After attending the North Carolina School of Arts, he moved to New York where he enrolled at both the Art Students League and the School of Visual Arts. With shows at 303 GalleryLaChapelle which also exhibited artists such as Doug Aitken and Karen Kilimnik , Trabia McAffee and others, his work caught the eye of Andy Warhol and the editors of Interview Magazine, who offered him his first professional photography job. LaChapelle's friends during this period included Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat Working at Interview Magazine, LaChapelle quickly began photographing some of the most famous faces of the times. Before long, he was shooting for the top editorial publications of the world, and creating the most memorable advertising campaigns of a generation. LaChapelle cites a number of artists who have influenced his photography. In a 2009 interview, he mentioned the Baroque painters Andrea Pozzo and Caravaggio as two of his favorites.[23] Critics have noted that LaChapelle's work has been influenced by Salvador Dalí, Jeff Koons, Michelangelo, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol. His striking images have appeared on and in between the covers of magazines such as Italian Vogue, French Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ, Rolling Stone and i-D. In his twenty-year career in publishing, he has photographed personalities as diverse as Tupac Shakur, Madonna, Amanda Lepore, Eminem, Philip Johnson, Lance Armstrong...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Savannah Spirit, Hold Onto Power (Black and White Nude Photography B&W)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this self portrait, Savannah Spirit turns the tradition of black and white female portraiture back on itself. The muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Through her artistic, social and curatorial projects, Spirit also takes on technology and social media censors, who assume that the unclothed body of a human, especially of those who identify as female, is pornography that must be controlled. Her artwork asserts that a woman is her own muse. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Press FORBES: Savannah Spirit Wants to Trigger Your Trump VICE: Erotic Art Fights Trump with Scenes of Female Pleasure BULLETT: The Art Show Fighting Fascism with Erotica HUFFINGTON POST: Artists Are Resisting Trump's Misogyny with Erotic Art DAZED: The Erotic Show Taking on Donald Trump Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Published: City Journal Huffington Post The Color Theory Expert Snap The Nation Global Yodel THE magazine Live Mag! The Villager Ravelin D/Railed Magazine Open Letr Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

Partition and Time
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Lorna Simpson is an American artist renowned as a pioneer of conceptual photography. Her artwork, regardless of medium, explores the interplay between hi...
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1990s Conceptual Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Savannah Spirit, Feeling Hollywood (Black and White Nude Photography)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Savannah Spirit Feeling Hollywood 30 x 20 inches Signed by artist Other editions: Feeling Hollywood (Freedom for the Artist) 40 x 28 inches Signed by artist Latest press ARTSY: Ma...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Archival Pigment

Reggia by Gina Soden, Photography, Interiors, Documentary Photography
Located in Deddington, GB
Reggia by Gina Soden [2013] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 4 Image size: H:70.02 cm x W:105 cm Complete Size of ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Digital

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Pink - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Pink, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards...
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2010s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Krankenhaus by Gina Soden, Contemporary Photography, Travel Photographer
Located in Deddington, GB
Krankenhaus by Gina Sodden [2013] limited_edition Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 4 Image size: H:40.64 cm x W:40.64 cm Complete Size...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

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Paper, Digital Pigment

El Caso
By Christian Boltanski
Located in Surfside, FL
Christian Boltanski, El Caso, Parkett., Zürich. 1989 in the collection of the MOMA Museum of Modern Art NYC Miniature booklet with 17 photographs, 2 x 3 1/8” (5 x 8 x 0,6 cm) ring bound with perspex covers and printed title Ed. 80/XX, signed and numbered (this one is not signed or numbered and might be an artist proof) Guilty, Not Guilty. Themes central to Boltanski’s oeuvre find devastating expression in this tiny piece of pocket pornography containing images of brutal murder re-photographed by the artist from the Spanish detective magazine El Caso. [Ref. Bob Calle - Christian Boltanski Artist's Books 1969-2007, p.60]. Artists' book featuring 17 b/w photographs held together with two metal rings: "Luxury edition of a booklet with real glossy photographs, small enough to be hidden behind the hand... It pictures the bodies of victims of violent crime. By showing these photographs of half-naked corpses, bought nearer by close-up shots, the artist transforms the viewer into a voyeur who virtually becomes a sadistic partner in the crime." -- from Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera 1966-1991. references "Livres" by Christian Boltanski. Paris / Köln / Frankfurt, France / Germany : AFAA / Jennifer Flay / Walther König / Portikus, 1991. No. 69 in "Christian Boltanski : Catalogue: Books, Printed Matter, Ephemera, 1966-1991" by Christian Boltanski, Jennifer Flay, Günter Metken. Köln / Frankfurt, Germany : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König / Portikus, 1992, pp. 184 - 185. "Christian Boltanski : Artist's Books 1969 - 2007" by Christian Boltanski, Bob Calle. Paris, France : Éditions 591, 2008, pp. 60. Quote “There is in the work of the artist something of the high priest and something of the charlatan...
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1980s Conceptual Photography

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Photographic Paper

Salle D'Etude by Gina Soden, Photography, Documentary Photography, Photographic
Located in Deddington, GB
Salle D’Etude by Gina Soden [2020] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 3 Image size: H:70.02 cm...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Paper, Digital

Atrium by Gina Soden, Colour photography, Limited edition print
Located in Deddington, GB
Atrium by Gina Soden [2016] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 1 Image size: H:87.5 cm x W:70 cm Complete Size of Un...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Paper, Digital

Stamp Collection, QV 3 cents - Conceptual color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
QV 3 Cents, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. Following on from the hugely successful ‘Vinyl Collection’, Natasha Heidler & Richard Heeps have collaborated again, drawing from the childhood past time of stamp collecting...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Untitled 2. Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled 2 from the Sin Título Series by Jose Sierra Archival Pigment Print Semi-Matte Sheet size: 40 in. H x 24.03 in. W Edition of 10 + 2AP Unframed 2016 Other sizes are availab...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Kaplica by Gina Soden, Documentary photography, colour photography
Located in Deddington, GB
Kaplica by Gina Soden [2014] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 9 Image size: H:70.02 cm x W:105 cm Complete Size of...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Paper, Digital Pigment

'Topaz' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Savannah Spirit Topaz 11” x 14” Silver gelatin print 1/1 "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

'Lux' Black and White Nude Classical Silver Gelatin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
In this rich self portrait, Savannah Spirit takes the tradition of black and white female nude photography, and turns the gaze back on itself. In this series, the muse is the artist, and the gaze is her own. Spirit believes that an image of a woman's body should not be viewed through a purely sexual lens. Through her artwork and curation, Spirit takes on technology and social media censors who operate on the assumption that any unclothed body is pornography. Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. "We are unique beauty, we are strong, we are equal, we are body-positive, we are elegant, we are powerful, we are vulnerable. We are our own muses." Style: This photograph combines a feminist eye and modern feminism with classic vintage pinup...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Chosen Pastime by Ben Thomas
Located in Brighton, GB
Please bear in mind that all prints are produced to order. Lead times are expected between 15-20 days. Due to currency fluctuations prices may change. Chosen Pastime is a colourful C-Type Print in an Edition of 10 in this size by contemporary photographer Ben Thomas...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Photographic Paper, Color

Self Portrait #8 From La Piedra Sustituta II Series. Nude color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#8, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta II" Series Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle paper Image size: 40 in. H x 24.6 in. W Edition of 10 + 1AP Unframed Additional si...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Castle Piano by Gina Soden, Interior, Architecture, History, Music
Located in Deddington, GB
Castle Piano by Gina Sodden [2013] limited_edition and hand signed by the artist Digital photograph on Baryta paper Edition number 6 Image size: H:70.0...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Photography

Materials

Paper, Digital

Raspail Red, Paris Metro Series
Located in Surfside, FL
these are original (signed with initials) proof prints c-print on Fuji crystal archive paper. there is some minor wear to the surface but it cannot be photographed and will probably not be visible when framed The National Museum of Women in the Arts presents P(art)ners: Gifts from the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection, an exhibition of 28 contemporary photographs and sculptures drawn from the more than 300 works the couple has donated to the museum. P(art)ners demonstrates the Podestas' shared collecting vision and honors their participation in the inaugural TEDWomen conference in Washington D.C. The Podestas' collaborative collecting practice inspired the NMWA staff to hand them the curatorial reins for this exhibition. The two have articulated the themes for P(art)ners and selected the works. Images of the female body or allusions to it (such as seen in G-Force Dive, a witty sculpture by E.V. Day (American, b. 1967) made from women's thong underwear stretched into the shape of fighter jets) present multiple views of contemporary feminine identity. These works exploring the female body are paired with photographs of architecture. Although they are built by and for people, the interior spaces lack human presence and appear surprisingly abstract. The Podestas note that images of constructed environments complement those of the human figure: "They are what remain of us when we're not there." Heather and Tony Podesta each head their own government relations firm in Washington, D.C., but they travel to contemporary art fairs and biennials around the world to discover outstanding new artists. P(art)ners features a striking series of photographs about travel by Nicoletta Munroe (American, b. 1968). For her "Paris Métro" series, Munroe, who has also worked as an art director in Hollywood, shot the brightly colored seats on the platforms of Paris's subway system. The rows of seats seem to stand in for the people who fill the stations each day. SURVIVAL L.A. A Group Show with Lisa Adams, SE Barnet, Kaucyila Brooke, Kathy Chenoweth, Martin Durazo, Kathleen Johnson, Hillary Mushkin, Nicoletta Munroe, Susan Otto, Christopher Pate, Steve Roden, Thaddeus Strode and Jody Zellen Raid Journal essays by: Holly Myers and Gordy Grundy UnNaturally features over 40 visually stunning works by fifteen artists who employ artificial materials to create simulations of nature that explore the frequently blurred boundary between culture and our environment, raising provocative questions about the mediated environment in which we live. UnNaturally plays on our nostalgia for an idealized pre-industrial past in which human beings and nature coexisted harmoniously in an unspoiled landscape. Artists includes Chris Astley, Gregory Crewdson, Jacci Den Hartog, Allan deSouza, Keith Edmier, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Jason Middlebrook,Nicoletta Munroe, Roxy Paine...
Category

1990s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print

Canada V limited edition contemporary photography by Jochen Cerny
Located in London, GB
Interpretation of the Canadian flag reflecting the diversity of the nation Artwork will be printed on highest quality photographic paper, glued onto an al...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print

Self Portrait #1. From La Piedra Sustituta II. Limited edition color photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
#1, 2020 by Jose Sierra From "La Piedra Sustituta II" Series Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemühle paper Image size: 40 in. H x 25.1 in. W Edition of 10 + 1AP Unframed Additional si...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-059 – Miroslav Tichy, Woman, Czech, Photography
Located in Zurich, CH
Miroslav Tichý (*1926, Czech Republic) Untitled, MT Inv. No 2-059 Unknown, ca. 1970-1990 Silver Gelatin Print Sheet 19,6 x 12,5 cm (7 3/4 x 4 7/8 in.) Unique Print only Tichý, practically reinventing photography from scratch, reconstitutes pictorialism along with it, and not as a distortion of the medium but as something like its essence. What counts for him is not only the image - just one moment in the photographic process - but also the chemical activity of the materials, which is never entirely stable or complete, and the delimitation of the results via cropping and framing. Marginal and exceptionally voyeuristic, in his methods Tichý could be described as an “art brut photographer” yet he is also marked by classical influences. Though his images are produced with poor-quality equipment and carelessly shot, they offer an idiosyncratic and almost hallucinatory vision of a fantastical, eroticised reality. With his endless return to the same subject and the volume and regularity of his production, Tichý’s work draws many parallels to certain practices of conceptual art during the same period. – Art, Black and White...
Category

Late 20th Century Conceptual Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Purple - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Purple, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards from Afar' have been given a twenty-first century pop art lease of life. The fine detailed tapestry of the original small postage stamp has been brought to life, made unique by the franking stamp and Heidler & Heeps specialist darkroom process. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic c-print, dry-mounted to aluminium, presented in a museum board white window mount and a choice of black or white box frame fitted with anti-reflective UV70% glass. It is signed and numbered on reverse accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. This artwork is available in other sizes. Be sure to look at Heidler & Heeps other artworks listed on 1stDibs as they are great paired for interior design projects. Following on from the hugely successful ‘Vinyl Collection’, Natasha Heidler & Richard Heeps have collaborated again, drawing from the childhood past time of stamp collecting...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Yellow - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Yellow, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcar...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Tricolore limited edition contemporary photograph by Jochen Cerny
Located in London, GB
Interpretation of the French flag presenting the French nation by applying a PixelSort effect. Artwork will be printed on highest quality photographic paper, glued onto an aluminiu...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Green - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Green, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards from Afar' have been given a twenty-first century pop art lease of life. The fine detailed tapestry of the original small postage stamp has been brought to life, made unique by the franking stamp and Heidler & Heeps specialist darkroom process. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss photographic c-print, dry-mounted to aluminium, presented in a museum board white window mount and a choice of black or white box frame fitted with anti-reflective UV70% glass. It is signed and numbered on reverse accompanied by a certificate of authenticity. This artwork is available in other sizes. Be sure to look at Heidler & Heeps other artworks listed on 1stDibs as they are great paired for interior design projects. Following on from the hugely successful ‘Vinyl Collection’, Natasha Heidler & Richard Heeps have collaborated again, drawing from the childhood past time of stamp collecting...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Uris Library, Ithaca (Cornell University)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Uris Library Cornell University Ithaca 50 x 62.5 inches ed. of 10 $6,000 60 x 75 inches ed. of 7 $9,000 70 x 87.5 inches ed. of 5 $11,000 signed...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

C Print, Lambda

Singapore Stamp Collection, 30c Singapore Orchid Blue - Floral color photo
Located in Cambridge, GB
30 Cents Singapore Orchid Blue, from the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection. This historic postage stamps that make up the Heidler & Heeps Stamp Collection, Singapore Series 'Postcards...
Category

2010s Conceptual Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Conceptual photography for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Conceptual photography available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add photography created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Reinhard Görner, Jose Sierra, xulong zhang, and Gianfranco Pezzot. Frequently made by artists working with C Print, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Conceptual photography, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available. Prices for photography made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $45 and tops out at $46,412, while the average work sells for $3,512.

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